Father's Day Festivities

Taylor and I were lucky enough to have a few leftover miles to go to San Francisco to visit my parents for Father's Day!

We went to one of my parents' favorite places to eat right after they picked us up from the airport, Baha Fresh.

And of course, Mom was all over the dessert!

Star chocolate cake!

 To work off all the dessert we went on a hike in Pleasanton Ridge called the Woodland Trail.

Hiking pole buddies.

Part of the hike.

 We came back for dinner and Mom made one of my all time faves...Manicotti!

 

Sunday morning Taylor left early and drove home in our new car a 2009 Chevy Malibu from my parents! So we gave my Dad his Father's Day card early on Saturday night.

Complete with Taylor's original illustration.

The rest of Sunday we spent in San Francisco while Taylor did all the hard work of driving the car home.

We went to China Town first.

Then strolled around the Palace of Fine Arts.

We walked around the pier after we ate In N Out and saw Pier 39 and then went over the the Golden Gate Park.

We found this little off shoot in Golden Gate Park called Shakespeare's Garden and we just relaxed in the shade for a while.

On our way home to Dublin, we detoured to Treasure Island which is an old military base island.

We started Monday off right by sleeping in and then working out our muscles!

It was fun teaching my mom how to squat with proper form and do a bench press.

Then we had fun exploring Dublin more and walking around my parents' neighborhood.

We even stopped to get an acai and pitaya bowl with bee pollen.

First time having bee pollen...haha!

And I had to FaceTime TayTay once he got home from driving

And...this happened. Never leave Taylor alone with anything permanent and markable...

Tuesday morning Mom and I hopped onto the train and headed to San Francisco to my Dad's work.

We ate an early lunch at the bank's cafeteria.

And we walked around downtown for a bit.

The funny-shaped brown building is where my Dad has an office

Happy Father's Day, Dad!  It was great to spend time with you!

It was a great extended weekend!  Love being able to see my parents even though they live in another state!

The Double U's: Wedding, Wanders, Work, Webelos

We had fun going to Taylor's friend's wedding at the SLC temple.

And because I didn't have my selfie stick, instead we just took two pictures of us that we can kinda mesh together:

 Also, in kitchen news...I discovered shallots!

I used them with every meal I made this week...

And we finally got to hiking the Red Butte Mountain trail to the top again.  We even saw a gopher snake!

Taylor showed me where he works with the Refugees at the Catholic Community Services in SLC.

And we had an epic campout for all the Cub Scouts in Millcreek Canyon.

Unfortunately, it was a downpour of rain.

Unfortunately again, someone took our reserved spot.

Fortunately, because of the rain, there were a lot of other available sites.

Fortunately again, our new site was a lot cooler for the boys.

So...it equals out.

Luckily we thought to bring our tarp so the boys would have some shelter from the rain!

 Taylor did such a good job getting the new campsite set up while the boys played around.  And he was so muddy!  He was pretty much muddy for the rest of the day!

Washing the mud from his hands by using nature's faucet...the rain falling off the tarp!

When life gets you wet and drenched: Model pic.

Then we taught all the boys how to build a fire and start a fire.

Notice the little boy wearing Taylor's jacket.  That's why Taylor didn't have a jacket after the first 3 minutes of getting to the canyon. A boy started to get wet and shiver. 

They also had fun learning how to make a fire burn bright, or make a fire really smokey in-case they got lost.

They also thought it was awesome to "murder" the fire my pouring a ton of river water onto it.

We went on a couple of hikes with the boys.  Luckily, the rain let up after lunch so the boys didn't get too cold.

The boys also had fun skipping stones and throwing rocks into the river.

And I had a good time getting to see Taylor werkk it!

He dressed me up to be with him!

I got to observe a DSAEK processing procedure. It was cool! 

The Birthdays...

For my 26th birthday, Taylor got the day off when his boss told him not to come in since she was sick.  So we got to spend all the morning together (except for my dentist appointment.)

I made Taylor go to Five Guys for my birthday lunch!

And then he lovingly made me my current fave dinner:  Chicken Tiki Masala!

The next day my coworker surprised me with some birthday flowers, a balloon, and some brownies!

And I used my new birthday work out gloves!

Taylor made even more favorite dinner treats!

 Yes, we are weird and put broccoli on pizza....
Is it also weird that this is oat and wheat flour crust?
Well...IT'S DELICIOUS!

And Michelle made me this beautiful chocolate cake:

 For Memorial Day weekend we went on a hike to Willow Heights in Big Cottonwood.  On our way up I spotted a moose!

This was a first time seeing a moose together and it was very exciting, especially for Taylor!  He made me watch for 30 minutes...And it was really cold and windy...But I loved it too!

We used our new coal grill as well to make some burgers!

We also made an awesome bottle rocket for Scouts!

Sadly, I didn't get to see it fly because I was too sick to go to Scouts.

For Taylor's birthday he had to work while I tried to change my last name on my passport.  Then when he got home we went to his favorite restaurant (Subway) and went to the movie theater to see the new X-Men.  I felt really crummy and kept shivering and just thought I was feeling crummy because all my joint pains were acting up...well instead it was because I had a high fever!  So this cute bum tucked me into bed early and gave me lots of tylenol even though it was his birthday!

I was happy that on Wednesday, I got to go home early from work so I could go get an antibiotic and Taylor's co-workers threw him a little sorbet birthday party.

Right now he's finally recovering the cornea and whole globes of deceased donors.

He's on-call three times a week for 12-hours, and responds to a case whenever death happens and the eyes are acceptable of donation. Last night he had 5 cases! Fun!!

The cornea after it's excised.

You can watch the procedure Taylor does for corneal excision on this link. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdihCkdoej4